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I was much surprised to receive a letter superscribed in your hand from London, & am very sorry to see, what occasion'd it. I fear the event the more, because in his best health Mr Wharton had always some complaint in his breast, & now the distemper has fallen upon the weak part.
Whenever you are able to disengage yourself, Mr Brown & I shall flatter ourselves with the hopes of seeing you at Cambridge for as long a time as you can afford to bestow on us. it is likely you may find Mason too with us, for he talks of setting out about the 20th to come hither.